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Who should replace Jason Segel for The Muppets sequel?

Caffeinated Clint March 6, 2012 Movie News

While out promoting his latest flick “Jeff Who Lives at Home”, Jason Segel revealed that he hasn’t just decided not to pen the next “Muppets” movie, he also intends on letting someone else star in it. Segel spent five years trying to get Disney to raise an eyebrow to his and Nick Stoller’s “The Muppets” script – or, as it was known in the early days, “The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made” – and the experience of finally getting the film made, though rewarding, has left Segel a little fatigued. Man needs a break from felt.

Here’s one interview in which Segel, who co-starred in “The Muppets” with Amy Adams and Chris Cooper, discussed his reasons for sitting the next “Muppets” out :

So what do you think, have Charles Grodin reprise Nicky Holiday for the sequel instead?

No? Who then? Talk away!


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